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July 3, 2008

Life in prison for Scharmacher

By KRYSTAL J. CARMAN

Jean Cook did not mince words when she spoke on behalf of her dead daughter at the formal sentencing of her former son-in-law Randy Scharmacher Wednesday.

“I sat in this courtroom for nine days and didn’t see one glimmer from him that he was sorry for what he did,” Cook said. “He was just sorry he got caught.”

Scharmacher was arrested in August 2006 after trying to recruit a another man to dispose of his wife’s body. After the man told authorities, Scharmacher’s rural Oologah home was searched, his wife’s body found and he was arrested.

Janice Scharmacher’s body was found wrapped in a tarp on a utility cart behind the couple’s home.Investigators also found methamphetamine, several firearms and a surveillance camera system in operation.

“No parents ought to ever have to bury their child who was killed by such violence. He should’ve got the same sentence my daughter did — death,” Cook said. “But since that’s not going to happen, I think he should have to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement and never be allowed to talk to another decent human being again.”

Janice Scharmacher’s daughter Kari Bohannan said, “This is something you only see on TV and in movies. My mother was brutally murdered by Randy Scharmacher — someone she loved and someone she thought loved her.

“She would’ve done anything to help anyone, but for some reason, she could not help herself get away from Randy,” Bohannan said.

Scharmacher was found guilty by a jury in May He was also found guilty of trafficking illegal drugs, operating a surveillance camera in commission of a felony and possession of a firearm in commission of a felony.

He received life in prison with the possibility of parole on the first-degree murder charge. He will also serve 10 years for trafficking drugs, one year for operating a surveillance camera and two years for possessing a firearm in commission of a felony. These sentences are to run consecutively.





By KRYSTAL J. CARMAN

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